- Getting Older
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Allman Brothers Band has a long, storied history and I wouldn't count them out. It's just not in the cards for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been a slow steady climb since my solo band got together almost 20 years ago. Me and my manager Blake were just talking about this, how every show has a few more people at it, every record has done a little better.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a picture of me taken next to George Jones. I rarely ask for that, but he's someone I couldn't pass up.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought, 'You could be absorbed in it - it's so seductive, you might lose your own search for identity.' Then, when I did finally go to Europe, I was able to resist it because I had established my own identity.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father's sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first Ramones show was at a small club in Columbus, Ohio, in 1978. It was a transformative experience, even though my memories are a little blurry, since someone kicked me in the head halfway through the show, probably during 'Beat on the Brat.'
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Leeds, just starting out, and I was hypnotising one person up on stage. Suddenly I had members of the crowd unsuspectingly go to sleep on me as well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.
- Impress
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't terribly sociable. I had two or three friends at school. I drew things, played with Lego. My parents left me free to do whatever made me happy.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020